Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 13th October 1995
Photo: Lincolnshire Standard Group
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Fantasy Island boss rescues heritage
Part of Skegness’ heritage has been returned to the area, thanks to Ingoldmells businessman, Mr John Woodward.
Mr Woodward successfully bid at Onslows’ London auction rooms for the original artwork by artist, John Hassall, which was used to produce the 1925 version [...]

JAYNE Brealey was the toast of Skegness at the weekend when she appeared live on national television -in a bikini.
Brave Jayne jumped at the chance to enter the “Number Cruncher” challenge on Saturday night when BBC’s Noel’s House Party called at the resort.
When show host Noel Edmonds announced that the strict dress code was a [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1995
A family’s first ever holiday turned into a nightmare after a quick dip in the sea at Chapel St Leonards [near Skegness].
They claimed a barrel containing a toxic chemical spilled into the sea burning the children as they played in the water.
Following a day on the beach playing with a ball and [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 24th November 1995
Photo: not credited
Welcome home ‘Jolly’
Welcome home! There were cheers of joy at the Ex-Servicemen’s Club in Skegness last week when the original copy of London and Eastern Railways’ poster depicting the Jolly Fisherman was officially unveiled. A £1,600 bid, made by the club president, Mr Archie Shaw, brought the poster [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1995
A WOMAN who set fire to a guesthouse full of holidaymakers and her own four children was jailed for life on Monday.
Carol Parker, 37, had recently been freed from a two-and-a-half-year sentence for starting five fires in a women’s refuge when she carried out the attack.
She lit two fires in a communal [...]

The news article tells us that the Skegness lifeboat rescued an airship owned by Richard Branson, which had crashed into the Wash.
A photo of the bedraggled airship was published along with the story.
Skegness lifeboatmen worked into the early hours of Monday to rescue an airship owned by tycoon Richard Branson which came down in the [...]